What’s in your Techstack? The best tech tools for any project
Save time by finding the best field-tested tools and experts recommended by members. These tools are in our reports (listed also) or recommended.
Just scan the alphabetical project list to see the tech used by members. You can also click on the report title to find “how they did it” strategies.
AI tools
• Create a newsletter from content – Claude.ai
Report: Which AI was best for creating a newsletter from our own content
•Create a curated newsletter – HeyNota
Report: Create a newsletter using HeyNOTA
• Create a news quiz – ChatGpt & Claude
Report: Create a set of news quizz from a white paper PDF.
• Create realtime listicles & timelines from internet – Perplexity
• Put a sales pitch to music – SUNO.ai
Report: 2024 Niche Leadership Summit Round-up
• Create a one-click podcast from a PDF – Notebook.Lm
Report: Using Notebook.Lm to create a podcast
• Create and schedule social media campaigns for content – Metricool
Report: Create and schedule social media
• Speech to text – Otter.ai
•Text to speech with generative voice or copy voice: Elevenlabs
•Create a podcast with voice/music/ads: NOA
• Text-based video editing – Vimeo and Descript
How to use Descript in 15 Minutes
Descript top tool to create Youtube channel
AI for Video
• Create Video – InVideo with Visla and Vimeo
Report: Create a video commercial from a text prompt
• Livestream and edit – Vimeo
Report with these three: Create a video from a sales prompt
• Create screenshare videos – Streamyard, Loom, WhatsApp
Ad Tech
• Build Premium ads with live preview – Broadstreet
Report: Sale rep reviews Broadstreet Ads
Affiliate sales
• Get a consultation on an affiliate project: – Adam Riemer
Report Getting started with Affiliate Sales
• B2B networks
Top B2B affiliate networks and how to find one that fits
• B2C networks
Top B2C affiliate channels and how to find one that fits
• Tourism & Dining
Top Affiliate partners for tourism and dining
Audience Development
• Obtain B2B emails using LinkedIn – WIZA.com
Report: Can we use WIZA to build 10,000 emails quickly?
• Obtain B2C Emails using Contests – SecondStreetMedia
• Text-based subscriptions – Subtext.com
Report: How media can use text channels
Courses
• Create online course – Teachable
Report: Publisher’s new passive $50,000 revenue stream from one course
• Hold live & video virtual courses: – Kajabi
Report: Two publishers expand into courses
Events
Text attendees – Subtext
Report: Using Subtext to communicate with event attendees
Franchising
• Get legal advice – Taft law
Report: Franchising comes to niche media
Management Consultants
• Constulting on Management & Succession – People Centric Consulting
Report: Round-up from 2024 Media Conference
• Consulting on digital starategies – Nearview media
Report: How META ads power first party data
Marketplaces
•Sell products online – Shopify
How he did it: Foodie publisher’s journey from 0 to Millions
Newsletters
Use free Google mail merge to send personalized email – YAMM
Report: Using YAMM for gmail merge
Create curated email from browser extention: HeyNota
Report: How to create a newsetter in minutes
Outsourcing
• Find contractors U.S. and overseas – Upwork & Fivrr
Report: How AIM Group pivoted in to a $60 billion worldwide market
Report: How to build a worldwide team of 50 contractors
Podcasts
•Edit podcasts using text – Descript
Report: Podnews.net on how they created a national newsletter company
• Speech to text for social promoation – Otter.ai
Report: Create & schedule social media promos from podcast
• Hosting and distribution – Buzzsprout.
Report: Create a newspodcast from your own content
Research
• See competitor’s online data – SimilarWeb.com
Report: How to find competitive data using SimilarWab
*Prove print ad recall – Baxter Research
Reports: Case study: Show print recall using Baxter research
Retargeting
• Send direct mail to – Sheridan
Report: Wine Enthusiast grosses $1.5 million from direct mail campaign retargeted from website
Sales
• Beef-up LinkedIn profile for more sales –Intero Advisory
Report: How to optimize your LinkedIn profile for sales
• Find advertisng leads – WIZA
Report: 10 Steps to find advertiser leads using WIZA
• Create digital ad scarcity – Nearview Media Consulting
Report: How LBM grew digital ad sales by 8x
• Sales training – Brainswell Media consultancy
• Create and sel a sample box program – Sheridan
Report How Sample Boxes create 6 figure revenues
Video
• Generate video from text with visual archive – InVideo and Visla
• Livestream and edit – Vimeo
Report with these three: Create a video from a sales prompt
• Create screenshare videos – Streamyard, Loom, WhatsApp
Report: Publishers recommend these video tools
Edit video – Davinci Resolve, CapCut
Report: Publishers recommend these video tools
Use Ai to cut video into reels – Opusclips
Report: OpusClips gets a c+ but will get better
